defunct
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7.0
- adjective
- /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
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extinto
- She discovered that the software was defunct and no longer supported by the developers.
- now-defunct
- became defunct
- defunct parties
We shot a series before for CSO, which is a defunct streaming service.
- We shot a series before for CSO, which is a defunct streaming service.
- And these people are so morally defunct they will not defend.
- We shot a series before for Siso, which is a defunct streaming service.
- That is a fundraiser for a defunct local theater.
- That is about as diabolical and morally defunct as you can be.
- And so the website was just sitting defunct.
- But I do see some of the labels kind of becoming defunct.
- They could turn all of the defunct pay phones into little walk in closets.
- Right now, the only way in and out of Ukraine is through roadways that are in the mountains and old defunct railways.
- The fourth industrial revolution where we are transhuman, multiplanetary and people like me are defunct.
- As for AMD, we know that AMD has publicly rebranded it's now defunct Frontier Edition card as a blocked chain Pioneers card.
- Why is that the case and how does that lead to the resistance that that could, you know, make antibiotics in in human use defunct?
Examples
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But it is a bill of sale from a defunct Manhattan art gallery.
Fiction book (2001) -
Welcome to the Concord Field Station, a defunct Nike missile base turned scientific menagerie.
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KAOS has been defunct for 20 years.
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This company's defunct and so are you.
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That is a fundraiser for a defunct local theater.
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In 1986, Nycum was head of an intellectual property practice group at a now-defunct California law firm.
Academic text (2003) -
The first eight volumes were also published, until 1966, by the now-defunct David McKay and Co. of New York.
Academic text (2008) -
In Mexico, however, it was not USAID but the now-defunct national coffee institute, INMECAFE, that promoted changes in coffee production.
Academic text (1999) -
The old factory was declared defunct after years of inactivity.
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After closing its doors, the restaurant became just another defunct business in town.
Synonyms
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3.6
No living members remain of a species or language
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5.8
No longer used or made because something newer replaces it
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4.5
Something that is empty or abandoned and no longer works
No longer made or offered
Antonyms
How Obsolete
Surface Forms
Etymology
Defunct comes from Latin parts de- ('away' or 'completely') and fungi ('to perform' or 'do'), so it originally meant 'finished' or 'done'. A helpful way to remember is to think of something that has 'finished its job'—that's why defunct now means 'no longer working, existing, or alive'.